meina

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From late Old Norse meina, from Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (to mean), from Old Saxon mēnian.

Verb

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meina (third person singular past indicative meinaði, third person plural past indicative meinað, supine meinað)

  1. to damage, to hurt
  2. to prevent, to avoid

Conjugation

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Conjugation of meina (group v-30)
infinitive meina
supine meinað
participle (a6)1 meinandi meinaður
present past
first singular meini meinaði
second singular meinar meinaði
third singular meinar meinaði
plural meina meinaðu
imperative
singular meina!
plural meinið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Verb

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meina

  1. to mean, to hold, to claim
    • eg meini tað (with stress on meini)
      ah well

Conjugation

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Conjugation of meina (group v-29-2)
infinitive meina
supine meinað/
meint
participle (a5/
a39)1
meinandi meintur
present past
first singular meini meinti
second singular meinar/
meinir
meinti
third singular meinar/
meinir
meinti
plural meina meintu
imperative
singular meina/
mein
!
plural meinið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Gothic

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Romanization

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meina

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From late Old Norse meina, from Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (to mean), from Old Saxon mēnian.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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meina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative meinti, supine meint)

  1. to think, be of a certain opinion
  2. to mean
  3. (emphatically) to really mean, to not be joking

Conjugation

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Verb

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meina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative meinaði, supine meinað)

  1. to prohibit or prevent (something, someone from doing something)

Conjugation

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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meina n

  1. definite plural of mein

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²mɛɪːna/ (verbs)

Etymology 1

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From Old Norse meina, from Middle Low German meinen, mēnen, from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-West Germanic *mainijan, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną. The noun is derived from the verb.

Alternative forms

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Verb

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meina (present tense meiner, past tense meinte, past participle meint, passive infinitive meinast, present participle meinande, imperative mein)

  1. to mean (convey meaning)
    Kva meiner dei med dette?
    What do they mean by this?
  2. think (to be of the opinion)
    Synonyms: tru, tenkja
    Eg veit ikkje kva eg skal meina om dette.
    I don't know what to think about this.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse meina.

Verb

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meina (present tense meinar, past tense meina, past participle meina, passive infinitive meinast, present participle meinande, imperative meina/mein)

  1. to harm

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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meina n

  1. definite plural of mein

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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meina f

  1. definite singular of meine

References

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Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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Probably of the noun mein (harm).

Verb

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meina

  1. (transitive with accusative) to harm
    1. (transitive with dative) to do harm to
  2. to hinder, prevent
  3. to forbid, prohibit
Conjugation
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Descendants
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  • Icelandic: meina
  • Faroese: meina
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: meina, meine
  • Old Swedish: mēna

Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen, from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-West Germanic *mainijan, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną.

Verb

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meina

  1. (rare) to mean (think)
Conjugation
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Descendants
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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meina

  1. inflection of meinn:
    1. strong feminine accusative singular
    2. strong masculine accusative plural
    3. weak masculine oblique cases singular
    4. weak feminine nominative singular
    5. weak neuter all cases singular

Noun

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meina n

  1. genitive plural of mein

References

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  • meina”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press